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OFFICE OP' LOCAL AND 'LT RHAN AFFAIR E3 MINNE501A STATE PLANNINO AGE NCT • CAI'I1 W. 50UARE OUILOING • S1. PAUL, MILAN 1501 A 55101 • PHONE (613)296.3091 PLEASE REFER THIS TO THE PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR PARK AND OUTDOOR RECREATION GRANTS TO: POTENTIAL APPLICANTS FOR LAWCON AND DATE: August 1, 1977 STATE GRANTS FROM: OFFICE OF LOCAL AND URBAN AFFAIRS SUBJECT: LAWCON AND STATE PRELIMINARY APPLICATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1978 This year the Office of Local and Urban Affairs is combining the LAWCON and LCMR grant programs with three new programs enacted by the 1977 Minnesota Legislature for trail development, athletic courts and regional parks in certain standard metropolitan statistical areas. This packet contains the preliminary application funding and outlines the procedures for local government units to apply for fiscal year 1978 park grants in the following categories: White application for Federal Land and Water Conservation Fund Act (LAWCON) and State Legislative Commission on Minnesota Resources (LCMR) grants to acquire and develop outdoor recreation facilities. Blue application for LAWCON and State grants to develop hiking, bicycling, and cross - country skiing trails in parks owned and operated by the applicant. Yellow application for state grants to develop basketball, handball, tennis and volleyball courts. Pink ap,lication for a special grant program created by the Minnesota Legislature for standard metropolitan statistical areas outside of the Metropolitan Council. This applies only to Benton, Chisago, Clay, Olmsted, St. Louis, Sherburne, Stearns and Wright Counties. The funds are available to acquire and develop parks, trails, conservatories, zoos, and special use facilities, all of which must have regional significance. Submission deadline: The appropriate apllication must be received by 5 p.m. on September 16, 1977. Applications received after the September 16, 1977 deadline or incomplete applications will be returned. Decisions on funding these applications will be made during the month of November, 1977. Submit application to: Parks and Recreation Grants Section State Planning Agency Room 101, Capitol Square Building St. Paul, Minnesota 55101 A copy of the completed application should also be sent to the appropriate regional development commission, metropolitan clearinghouse, or the Metropolitan Council for review, at the same time it is sent to the Office of Local and Urban Affairs (see attachment I). We will ask each regional development commission and the Metropolitan Council to help rank applications from their respective regions. If you have any questions concerning these applications, please call the Parks and Recreation Grants Section at (612) 296 -4703. Enclosed in the back of this packet is informational sheets on the bikeways development program on the Minnesota Department of Transportation and the snowmobile, ski touring and equestrian trail program of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Anyone desiring further information or application material, should contact these agencies directly.